Training & Educational Activities

GP2

2 - 6 May 2017

Gothenburg, Sweden
Training School – Reactive gliosis from mechanobiology and signal transduction to molecular targets and disease pathogenesis, Gothenburg, Sweden

The aim of this training school was to provide both an overview and cutting edge research data on the role of cellular structural networks in CNS disease pathogenesis, with a special focus on the glia-neuron interactions in health and disease.

The training school aimed at providing multidisciplinary understanding of the function of cellular structural networks in CNS disease context. In the past 10 years, deregulation of structural cellular networks and their impact on human diseases, had been intensely studied, and glia‐neuron interactions had been found to play a key role in the pathogenesis of many neurological diseases. This training school aimed to present and integrate novel techniques and recent discoveries as well as to define interdisciplinary approaches to study cellular networks in CNS diseases for better understanding of diseases pathogenesis and the opportunities to enhance regenerative processes in situations such as stroke, neurotrauma, Alzheimer's disease, ALS, or Alexander disease. Organizers brought together some of the most prominent scientists and teachers from diverse but highly complementary fields, including astrocyte (patho)physiology, biology of the nanofilament system, cell signaling, cell biophysics and rheology, neuroimmunology, neurodegeneration, regeneration/neuroplasticity, or state‐of‐the art in vitro and in vivo imaging.

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25 - 29 June 2017

Yearim - Judean Hills, Israel
Training School, The Nuclear Lamina and Nuclear Organization

The School included the following sessions: Nuclear lamina & nuclear dynamics, Structural aspects of the nucleus, Nuclear Mechanics, Laminopathies, DNA repair and lamins, Cytoplasmicnuclear interactions, Intermediate filaments & Nuclear organization, Nuclear periphery & chromatin organization I. The School included a daily poster session in which the speakers and the students could interact. Organizers aimed at attracting students from target countries. This timely topic was boosted forward by the integration of emerging technologies and seminal findings. Organizer´s approach was to organize this international school with the emphasis of bringing together leading scientists from multiple disciplines, which were within the frame of our COST program.

Organizers emphasized a highly novel and emerging concept, which was the inside-out and outside-in crosstalk between cytoskeletal and nucleoskeletal signaling. They believed that the field matured to the point where the crosstalk between different areas of science was essential for generating groundbreaking discoveries. More importantly, it was an important subject for the students to learn from world leaders. As organizers, their task were to facilitate and stimulate a cross-disciplinary discussion focused on structure and function of the cell nucleus. This school was right in the center of our COST program and included the subjects of all 4 workgroups, as they appeared in the proposal. A few of the confirmed speakers were: Roger Kornberg – Nobel Laurent on transcription, world leaders in mechano-biology (David Weitz, Dennis Discher, Jan Lammerding), as well as Rob Singer, Susan Gasser and many more. Students and other participants presented posters and interacted with the invited speakers

GP4

9-11 September 2019

Trnava, Slovakia
Training School on Multimodal Optical Imaging
Organizer: Dr. Alzbeta Marcek Chorvatova


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GP5

23-26 March 2021

Online meeting | University of Gothenburg, Sweden and the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands

Training School - New technological tools for the study of cytoplasmic intermediate filaments in the central nervous system in health and disease

The EuroCellNet Cost Training School "New technological tools for the study of cytoplasmic intermediate filaments in the central nervous system in health and disease" will be broadcasted in March 23-26 from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. The training school aims to present novel techniques and recent discoveries including interdisciplinary approaches to study cellular networks in CNS diseases for better understanding of disease pathogenesis. We are bringing together some of the most prominent scientists and teachers representing diverse and highly complementary fields and technologies.

FINAL PROGRAM

1st ITC Grants call (GP 2)

Marcos Gouveia
Conference title: International Symposium Measuring and Modelling Cell Migration Vienna
Date: 22.2. – 23.2.2018
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Maurício Soares
Conference title: International Symposium Measuring and Modelling Cell Migration Vienna
Date: 22.2. – 23.2.2018
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2nd ITC Grants call (GP 3)

Magdalena Prechova
Conference title: Intermediate Filaments as the Platform to Underpin the "Social Network" of Cells and Tissues
Date: 24.06. – 29.06.2018
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Aleksandra Tomczak
Conference title: Gordon Research Conference Intermediate Filaments as the Platform to Underpin the "Social Network" of Cells and Tissues
Date: 24.06. – 29.06.2018
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Marta Pałka
Conference title: Gordon Research Conference Intermediate Filaments as the Platform to Underpin the "Social Network" of Cells and Tissues
Date: 24.06. – 29.06.2018
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Katarzyna Piekarowicz
Conference title: Intermediate Filaments as the Platform to Underpin the "Social Network" of Cells and Tissues
Date: 30.06. – 06.07.2018
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Miloslava Maninova
Conference title: 2018 Intermediate Filaments Conference GRC
Date: 11.07. – 16.07.2018
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Sara Lopes
Conference title: GRC - Intermediate Filaments
Date: 24.08. – 29.08.2018
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Darina Paprčková
Conference title: EMBL Transcription and Chromatin
Date: 25.08. – 28.08.2018
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Can Balaban
Conference title: Transcription and Chromatin
Date: 25.08. – 28.08.2018
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Dominik Pinkas
Conference title: 19th International Microscopy Congress
Date: 09.09. – 14.09.2018
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Nuno Saraiva
Conference title: International Meeting of the German Society for Cell Biology
Date: 17.09. – 19.09.2018
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Vera Stamenkovic
Conference title: Controlling Neuronal Plasticity: developmental disorders and repair
Date: 06.12. – 07.12.2018
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Marta Pałka
Conference title: The 2019 EuBIC Winter School on proteomics bioinformatics
Date: 15.01. – 18.01.2019
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3rd ITC Grants call (GP 4)

Veronika Fáberová
Conference title: Chromatin and Epigenetics
Date: 01.05. – 04.05.2019
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Kristine Salmina
Conference title: 26th Wilhelm Bernhard Workshop on the Cell Nucleus
Date: 20.05. – 24.05.2019
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Sara Lopes
Conference title: Wilhelm Bernhard Workshop on the Cell Nucleus
Date: 20.05. – 24.05.2019
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Magdalena Prechova
Conference title: Cell Contact and Adhesion
Date: 02.06. – 07.06.2019
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Rositsa Maystorova
Conference title: 9th UK Nuclear Envelope and Chromatin Organization Meeting 3rd International Meeting on Laminopathies
Date: 02.09. – 05.09.2019
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Patricia Pitrez
Conference title: 9th UK Nuclear Envelope and Chromatin Organization Meeting 3rd International Meeting on Laminopathies
Date: 02.09. – 05.09.2019
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4th ITC Grants call (GP 5)

Cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak and related restrictions during 2020 and 2021

STSMs

GP 1

Aleksandra Mladenovic Djordjevic, Serbia
Project: The role of Hirano bodies in 5xFAD mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Host: National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology, Greece
Date: 30. 1. – 20. 2. 2017

Pavel Marasek, Sweden
Project: Nanoscale structure of intermediate filaments in normal and nestin-depleted astrocytes
Host: Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) gGmbH, Mainz, Germany
Date: 5. 2. – 19. 2. 2017

Beata Cunderlikova, Slovakia
Project: Mechano‐biology of 3D cell cultures
Host: III. Physikalisches Institut ‐ Biophysik, Georg‐August‐Universität, Göttingen, Germany
Date: 22. 2. - 10. 3. 2017

Mladen Paradzik, Croatia
Project: The composition of integrin alpha V focal adhesions
Host: Welcome Trust Centre for Cell‐Matrix research at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Date: 27. 2. – 8. 3. 2017

GP 2

Flávia Castro, Portugal
Project: The effect of immunomodulatory nanoparticles on macrophage cytoskeleton dynamics and their impact on cancer cell invasion
Host: Laboratory of Experimental Cancer Research, University of Gent, Belgium
Date: 1. 10. – 29. 12. 2017

Maurício Soares, Portugal
Project: The interplay between extracellular matrix (ECM) mechanics and intracellular regulation on cellular motility: a mathematical model approach
Host: Ecole Polytechnique, France
Date: 2. 10. – 13. 10. 2017

Danny Kitsberg, Israel
Project: Mapping the changes in the interactome of lamin-A/C induced by matrix elasticity
Host: Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
Date: 6. 11. – 16. 11. 2017

Alzbeta Kalendova, Czech Republic
Project: Mechanobiology of plectin-deficient simple epithelia
Host: Center for Medical Physics and Technology, Erlangen, Germany
Date: 16. 10. – 14. 12. 2017

Anne Bertrand, France
Project: Resolving the organization and structure of nuclear lamins in cardiac dilation mutant
Host: Zurich University, Zurich, Switzerland
Date: 22. 10. – 28. 10. 2017

Nuno Saraiva, Portugal

Project: Impact of hGAAP on cell invasion: role of mitochondrial Ca2+

Host: King's College, London, United Kingdom

Date: 7. 1. – 13. 1. 2018

Miloslava Maninova, Czech Republic

Project: The role of protein TPR in mechanical properties of mammalian nuclei

Host: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

Date: 8. 1. – 27. 1. 2018

Anders Aufderhorst-Roberts, Netherlands
Project: Understanding the Role of Intermediate Filament Internal Structure in Cytoskeletal Crosstalk
Host: Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany
Date: 8. 1. – 28. 1. 2018

Katarzyna Piekarowicz, Wroclaw
Project: Induced pluripotent stem cell differentiation as a tool for modeling laminopathie
Host: University College London, London, United Kingdom
Date: 1. 2. – 28. 2. 2018

Peter Nanasi, Hungary
Project: Superresolution Microscopic Analyses of Nuclear Structures
Host: Light Microscopy Core Facility of the Institute of Molecular Genetics, Czech Republic
Date: 12. 2. – 25. 2. 2018

Ana Dekanic, Croatia
Project: Iintergrin αVβ3 and αVβ5 Focal Adhesions Analysed by Atomic Force Microscopy
Host: Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
Date: 17. 3 – 30. 3. 2018

Dominik Pinkas, Czech Republic
Project: AFM studies of mechanical properties of cell nuclei depending on lamin A modifications
Host: Biozentrum and The Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland
Date: 1. 3. – 31. 3. 2018

GP 3

Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, Norway
Project: Establishment of collaborative project on: “Cellular mechanisms responsible for maintenance of astroglial polarity and implication on development of hydrocephalus
Host: Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas "Alberto Sols" (CSIC-UAM), Madrid, Spain
Date: 19. 08. – 23. 08. 2018

Ivan Capo, Serbia
Project: CYTOSKELETAL DISTURBANCE IN CEREBELLAR CORTEX OF VITAMIN C PRENATALLY DEPRIVED GUINEA PIGS
Host: Croatian Institute for Brain Research, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Date: 17. 09. – 26. 09. 2018

Monika Biasizzo, Slovenia
Project: Distribution of heterochromatin marks at the nuclear periphery in stefin B deficient cells
Host: Institute of Molecular Genetics of the ASCR, v. v. i.; Prague, Czech Republic
Date: 08. 10. – 19. 10. 2018

Kristine Salmina, Latvia
Project: Study of the spatial changes of the chromatin network after ribosomal RNA suppression by Actinomycin D
Host: Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Estonia
Date: 05. 11. – 16. 11. 2018

Magdalena Prechova, Czech Republic
Project: Plectin-controlled Mechanics in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Host: Department of Physics, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Date: 31. 01. – 31. 03. 2019

Aleksandra Mladenovic Djordjevic, Serbia
Project: 18α-glycyrrhetinic acid- induced activation and translocation of Nrf2 in 5xFAD transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Host: National Hellenic Research Foundation Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology, Athens, Greece
Date: 02. 02. – 16. 02. 2019

Inna Inaskina, Latvia
Project: Gene expression analysis of selected epithelial vertebrate markers in amoeboid giant cells in the doxorubicin-resistant triple negative breast cancer using selfie-digital PCR
Host: Institute for Biomedical Research of Barcelona, Spain
Date: 04. 02. – 13. 02. 2019

Alice Uwineza, United Kingdom
Project: Proteomic Analysis of AGE adducts after ROS-mediated modification of lens membrane and cytoskeletal proteins
Host: In University of Milan, Italy
Date: 11. 02. – 10. 03. 2019

Ana Jakovljević, Serbia
Project: Investigation of perineuronal net ultrastructure in the hippocampus of tenascin-C deficient mice using superresolution 3D-SIM imaging
Host: Institute of Molecular Genetics, Prague, Czech Republic
Date: 23. 02. – 30. 03. 2019

Marija Rogar, Slovenia
Project: Preparation of iPS cells for various EB types and engineering a 3D full skin model for epidermolysis bullosa
Host: King's College London Faculty of Life Science & Medicine, United Kingdom
Date: 01. 03. – 31. 03. 2019

Dominik Pinkas, Czech Republic
Project: Examining intranuclear lipidic structures by advanced cryo-electron tomography.
Host: Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Date: 04. 03. – 15. 03. 2019

Erik Vlčák, Czech Republic
Project: Training in advanced sample preparation for cryo-electron tomography with focus on lipidic structures in the nucleus
Host: Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Date: 04. 03. – 15. 03. 2019

GP 4

Markus Aswendt, Germany
Project: Physiological roles of the different AQP4 isoforms
Host: Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Date: 02. 09. – 08. 09. 2019

Shervin Banitalebi, Norway
Project: The role of astrocytes in brain connectivity related to recovery after stroke
Host: University of Bari Aldo Moro, School of Medicine: Basic Medical Sciences, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, Italy
Date: 19. 01. – 25. 01. 2020

Aleksandra Mladenovic Djordjevic, Serbia
Project: The role of proteasome in the age-and dietary restriction-related changes in learning and memory in male Wistar rats
Host: National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
Date: 03. 02. – 15. 02. 2020

Paulina Rybak, Poland
Project: Role of the matrix metalloproinases 9 (MMP-9) in the local plasticity of dendritic synapses
Host: Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
Date: 16. 02. – 05. 03. 2020

GP 5

Mathias Hoehn, Germany
Project: Brain regeneration by C3a
Host: University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Date: 12. 10. – 17. 10. 2020

Markus Aswendt, Germany
Project: The role of astrocytes in brain connectivity related to recovery after stroke
Host: University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Date: 12. 10. – 17. 10. 2020

Marta Martins, Portugal
Project: Impact of the human Golgi ion channel hGAAP/TMBIM4 in Glioblastoma in vivo cell  Invasion
Host: Is University of Rouen, Normandie, France
Date: 10. 01. – 23. 01. 2021

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